Still, the folks behind the show acknowledge that this is a microbe with an image problem.“We were well aware of what E. coli does to the human body, but had no hesitation putting it in the exhibition,” curator Emma Enderby tells CityLab. “We wanted to create an alien landscape that was also a very real landscape, with images of things found on Earth. What’s a better alienlike creature than E. coliblown up to this scale?”

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